About kids that work their butts off to provide themselves with food, shelter, and money. They are poor and have to do very dangerous jobs to provide for their family and themselves.
Storyboard Text
Rose: Don't buy the world or journal newspapers!
Newsies on strike! Newsies on strike!
Boots: We demand a fair deal!
Racetrack: You tell Mr. Heast that we ain't giving up.
Rose: We got to get those news papes.
But you won’t have trouble selling the whole lot of ’em when people hear this headline: “America Declares War!”